Eurobubba
Newsletter from me in my very serious business persona: mailchi.mp/eae230e83…
Never mind chemical experiments; it’s hard to imagine a water-dwelling species developing even primitive technology without fire. pacificklaus.com/the-silur…
Hans Christian Andersen is said to have feared being buried alive and to have left a note on his bedside table each night that read “I only appear to be dead.”
I think I need that on a t-shirt.
“A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.”
- Thucydides
Author says “Having that information is like wearing a neon sign that says ‘this is a very wise person’” and I’m not sure that would actually work.
I missed this back in October: 100th anniversary of the first transatlantic passenger zeppelin flight
Still can’t believe he does all that crazy stuff for the International Monetary Fund. www.youtube.com/watch
TIL that “graft” is apparently UK slang for diligent effort. I was a bit surprised to read an admiring profile of a certain business consultant that attributed her success to “hard graft”.
Good insight from Bill Seitz’s Hack Your Life With a Private Wiki Notebook: the very few tasks in your Focus deserve time, energy, and attention. For most other tasks, if they can’t be avoided altogether, do the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Starting to think texting STOP to political text spam is up there with “unsubscribing” from email spam.
Drinking Turkish-style coffee is all about it sipping that last little bit of liquid without getting mud in your throat.
Thinking I might just hold off till next year to get a new iPhone so I can set up a new Apple ID in the EU and play around with alt app stores. (Can’t afford one right now before I leave Europe in a couple of weeks.)
Text untouched by human hands: “highbrow belongings” as synonym for “intellectual property”. Nice one, GT. arc.net/l/quote/p…